| Štefana
Klaic - Hribar 1863 - 17.08.1941.
Education:
Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen, Vienna
Biography: During the course of the 19th century, the Slavonian
stock of Klaic from Garcin developed several famous Croats
in education (Franjo Klaic), politics (the painter's father,
viceroy Marko Klaic) and in science (the historian Vjekoslav
Klaic). Štefana Klaic reflects the family artistic genes,
which would later continue in different family branches
until the modern Croatian painter Đurdena Zaluški). When
she married, her parents, wealthy Slavonian landowners,
gave her as their only child a house at 61 Jurjevska, Zagreb,
as a dowry. She married Franjo Hribar, who had a stationery
shop in Vienna. Her husband died young and she was left
with two sons, of whom the younger died early, and the older,
Stjepan (1889-1965), became an outstanding architect – an
urban planner for the city of Zagreb. Among Štefana's opus,
a special place is held by small water colours which she
painted to the size of a post card, and which reflected
all her motherly love and care when she was sending them
to her son Stjepan in Dresden where he studied and was a
soldier during the First World War. In the Zagreb cemetery
of Mirogoj withinin the arcades, is the tomb of Klaic Hribar.
Her name is not written on the tomb because her daughter-in-law
who was always jealous of her, erased her name after her
death.
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